James Frederick Wood

James Frederick Wood (27 April 1813-20 June 1883) was Bishop and Archbishop of Philadelphia from 5 January 1860 to 20 June 1883, succeeding John Neumann and preceding Patrick John Ryan.

Biography
James Frederick Wood was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on 27 April 1813 to a Unitarian Protestant family, and he worked as a bank clerk, book-keeper, teller, and cashier in Cincinnati, Ohio during the 1830s. In 1836, he was baptized into the Catholic Church, and he headed to Rome in 1837 to study to become a priest. On 25 March 1844, he was ordained a priest, and he became Coadjutor Bishop of Philadelphia in 1857. In 1860, he became Bishop of Philadelphia, and he became Archbishop when the bishopric was elevated to an archbishopric in 1875. Wood died in 1883 at the age of 70.